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To them belong the fathers and out of them, so far as physical descent is concerned, came Christ who is above all, God, blessed for ever. Amen. (Romans 9, 5)
That is, it is not by being children through physical descent that people become children of God; it is the children of the promise that are counted as the heirs. (Romans 9, 8)
Do not forget, then, that there was a time when you who were gentiles by physical descent, termed the uncircumcised by those who speak of themselves as the circumcised by reason of a physical operation, (Ephesians 2, 11)
But this man, who was not of the same descent, took his tithe from Abraham, and he gave his blessing to the holder of the promises. (Hebrews 7, 6)
not in virtue of a law of physical descent, but in virtue of the power of an indestructible life. (Hebrews 7, 16)